Literary work Japanese reading statistics

How hard is 地獄変 to read in Japanese?

Aggregate vocabulary, kanji, length, and reading-profile data from the DokiDokiDict recommender corpus.

Literary work
Literary work
地獄変
43pages at 600 Japanese characters each
1,804unique vocabulary identities
1,183unique kanji
48.5Japanese characters per indexed sentence

Japanese reading profile

This indexed edition contains 26,372 Japanese characters across 544 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 69th percentile of the 501 indexed literature. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 69th percentile within the same group.

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